Yup. And I would prefer that. Best case would of course be the player getting a sufficiently epic gnome-centric questline to get him out, with him possibly being permanently affected, but overcoming his disadvantages over time… but I don’t think a good option is a real option, sadly.

I think it’s more fascinating that nearly all French generals are from the 18th century when Napoleon was running around.

What’s even more impressive, is even through France got all this amazing Generals, including Napoleon (1st place) they couldn’t win for France, what Alexander (5th place) managed to conquer with 22 victories or even Caesar (4th place) with 23 victories.

Also, the Generals from the second World War (England, America Russia and Germany) average about 8-19 battles won.
Montgomery leads with 10th place.
Maybe the fact that, the armies became more independent, fragmented, smaller, by this period, meant less burden on the Generals, because there was more conflicts happening everywhere, than the Napoleon period.